UPSTREAM

SYNOPSIS: Days before a hotly contested re-election, the mayor of a polluted industrial city is kidnapped by a young man from the very slum his policies helped create — a “kidnapping” secretly staged by a petrochemical conglomerate to guarantee the mayor’s political survival. When the plot spins wildly out of the conspirators’ control, environmental injustice and political corruption collide in this taut, ripped-from-the-headlines thriller. A PTS Originals production (Chinese title: 濁流), Upstream made its world premiere at AFFD 2017.